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The Halloween Tree (1993)

Edan Gross: Tom

The Halloween Tree

Edan Gross credited as playing...

Tom

Quotes11

  • Tom: Please sir, trick or treat.
  • Mr. Moundshroud: So you've tricked me, is that it? What would a treat be then, hmm?
  • Tom: Well, we saw our friend come in here. If you let him go, that would be a treat.
  • Tom: Tom Skelton you're one lucky boy, a name like Skelton on a night like this.
  • [clocks chime]
  • Tom: Uh oh, Pip's gonna kill me if I'm late.
  • Tom: I once wished for something to happen to you so that I could be leader for a change. But I never thought appendicitis.
  • Pip: Don't be silly, Tom, I'll let you lead anytime.
  • Tom: [reading] Dear Tom and all the gang.
  • Wally: Didn't mean to spoil your Halloween, off to the hospital.
  • Jenny: Something about appendicitis. Don't worry, I'll catch up. Signed...
  • Tom, Wally, Jenny: Pip!
  • Tom: Appendicitis?
  • Wally: You could die from that, right?
  • Tom: P.S., start without me, I'll catch up. Ready. Set. Go?
  • Jenny: Notre Dame! I think we've built Notre Dame!
  • Wally: But this can't be Notre Dame! Can't you see what's missing? Monster faces!
  • Tom: You know, stone devils.
  • Ralph: Marble demons!
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Gargoyles. Ever wonder why we like dressing up as monsters, beasts and ornery critters?
  • Tom: A pumpkin tree?
  • Mr. Moundshroud: No, a HALLOWEEN tree!
  • Tom: [arriving at Pip's house] Huh?
  • Ralph: Impossible.
  • Jenny: It can't be!
  • Wally: What?
  • [the house is scarcely decorated]
  • Jenny: Where're the jack-o-lanterns?
  • Ralph: And the corn shucks on the porch?
  • Wally: And monsters clinging to the roof!
  • Tom: [running around to the back] Something's wrong, awfully wrong!
  • [they turn the corner and see Pip being loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital]
  • Tom: There's a shortcut to the hospital.
  • Wally: No, not *that* shortcut, Tom.
  • Tom: Come on, you heard him: ready, set, go!
  • Tom: [sees Pip running down the ravine] It's Pip! PIP!
  • Wally: [aghast] Hey, I can see right through him!
  • Ralph: Nah, it's just this funny moonlight.
  • Tom: The important thing is he's not sick.
  • Wally: But what about the hospital?
  • Tom: Don't you get it? It was a joke all the time, the ambulance, that note on the door, what a trickster! Hey Pip! You sure had us fooled! Where's your Halloween costume?
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Who are you?
  • Tom: The name's Tom Skelton, sir.
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Know why you're wearing bones, boy? Bah! Didn't think so. And you?
  • Ralph: My friends call me...
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Why so dressed up in an ancient mummy's rags, huh? Time's up! And you, the big one!
  • Wally: Me, sir?
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Why a monster's face? And what about you, girl?
  • Jenny: Jenny!
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Why are you wearing the costume of a witch? No thoughts, aye?
  • [moans]
  • Mr. Moundshroud: I'm wasting my breath. All dressed up for All Hallow's Eve, but you don't know why, or what, or even from where!
  • Tom: And you, sir? Who might you be?
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Oh yes, of course.
  • [hands Tom his card]
  • Mr. Moundshroud: Moundshroud is the name. Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud. Is that but a fine name, children? Does it
  • [chuckles]
  • Mr. Moundshroud: ring? But I have work to do tonight, no treats, only tricks.

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